Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Tompkins
County Public Library will host a fun-filled reception and open house for
members of local book clubs October 30 at 6 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community
Room.Facilitated
by Reader’s Services Librarian Sarah Glogowski, this event will feature
information on Library resources for book clubs, advice on selecting titles,
tips for facilitating engaging discussions, details about borrowing book club
kits and a presentation of Glogowski’s popular talk “You Can Judge a Book by
Its Cover.”A
favorite of local clubs and not-for-profits, “You Can Judge a Book by Its
Cover,” explores how—with just a quick glance—readers can use the location of
an author’s name, the color of the cover and font size to determine how racy a
romance novel will be, how to differentiate science fiction from fantasy, and
even how popular an author is.Glogowski
is a sought after speaker. The coordinator of TCPL’s annual Community
Read, she has facilitated book clubs at TCPL, Cornell University, Lifelong, the
City of Ithaca, and for many local fraternal organizations.This
reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be
provided. For
more information, contact Glogowski at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or sglogowski@tcpl.org.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

In celebration of Silent Movie Month in Ithaca, Tompkins
County Public Library, Ithaca-Made Movies and Ithaca Motion Picture Project
will present an afternoon of locally-made movies October 28 beginning at 2 p.m.
in the Library’s BorgWarner Community Room.Ithaca-Made Movies Founder Terry Harbin, will host this
family-friendly event featuring screenings of “Patria,” “The Mysteries of Myra”
and “The Romance of Elaine.” These serials were filmed in Ithaca by the famed Wharton Brothers
and featured many local landmarks that are still recognizable nearly a century
later.“Patria” features local legend George “Bogue” Bowlsby in a scene
including actress Irene Castle and actor Warner Oland—later known as Charlie
Chan. A theatrical fire is responded to by The Ithaca Fire Department who
leave from the old City Hall building on Seneca Street. Cayuga Lake,
Morse Chain and Brooktondale’s wooden railroad trestle are also seen in the
film.“The Romance of Elaine”—the only footage remaining from the Wharton
Brothers 1915 serial—features a young Lionel Barrymore and Pearl White and “The
Mysteries of Myra,” features the famed mental vampire “The Thought Monster.”The episodes being shown during this free event have been edited
to include music, color tinting and sound effects. Restoration was
completed by Eric Stedman of Serial Squadron.For more information, contact Harbin at (607) 272-4557 extension
238 or tharbin@tcpl.org.To learn more about Ithaca-Made Movies, visit www.ithacamademovies.com.Following the Library’s presentation, Ithaca Motion Picture
Project will present a 4 p.m. screening of Buster Keaton in “The General” at
Cinemapolis.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Cornell University’s Division of
Rare and Manuscript Collections, will host Priceline.com founder Jay Walker for
“Discovering Imagination in American History,” October 27 at 1 p.m. in the
BorgWarner Community Room.A 1977
Cornell graduate, Walker will offer his personal insight into how the
conception of America as a representative democracy was one of history’s
greatest leaps of imagination and discuss the anastatic copy of the Declaration
of Independence currently on display at the Library.On-loan
from Walker’s private collection, “The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination,”
the Declaration of Independence is one of only two-known copies created through
the anastatic process.Housed
in Walker’s Ridgefield, CT home, the 3,600 square feet “Walker Library. . .”
exhibits dozens of museum-quality artifacts and rare manuscripts
including, an original 1957 Russian Sputnik and a 1699 atlas containing
the first maps to show the sun, not the earth, as the center of the known
universe.During
his TCPL talk, Walker will also discuss and showcase other items from his
collection, illustrating the imaginative high points of U.S. history.This
program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact
Sally Grubb at (607) 272-4557 extension 232 or sgrubb@tcpl.org.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Beginning October 24, non-native English
speakers are invited to the Tompkins County Public Library for “ESL Snack and
Chat Conversation Groups.”These informal, drop-in sessions will be held each
Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room West and
offer a relaxed setting for practicing conversation and listening skills.
The meetings will help participants discover and access language-learning
resources at the Library and in the community and provide a forum for
information sharing.Snack and Chat sessions are free and open to
individuals with the desire to improve their English or willing to serve as
conversation partners for others. Light refreshments will be provided.For more information, contact Joyce Wheatley at jwheatley@tcpl.org or Debbie Collier at dcollier@tcpl.org. Community members interested
in volunteering to help facilitate the program are encouraged to contact Tonya
Curran at tcurran@tcpl.org or
607-272-4557 extension 226.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

What’s
juicier than “Fifty Shades of Grey” and more interesting than eavesdropping?
“One Hundred Shades of Orange,” and “Overheard Conversations,” two
writing workshops being offered by Tompkins County Public Library this month.Free
and open to writers of all experience levels, these inter-generational writing
workshops will be facilitated by local publisher, poet and anthologist Irene
“Zee” Zahava.“One
Hundred Shades of Orange,” being held from 2 to 4 p.m. on October 21, offers a
chance to explore—through paint color swatches—the multiple shades, dimensions
and stories of orange. From Cool Melon, Canyon Haze and Golden Tulip, the
poems, stories and autobiographical pieces created during this workshop will be
as varied as the colors themselves.“Overheard
Conversations” will be held on October 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. and play off of the
interest and intrigue generated by witnessing people in the midst of a private
conversation. Writings will be inspired by photographs of people talking.Both
programs will be held in the Library’s Thaler/Howell Programming Room and are
open to participants age 9 and up. The programs are free, but
registration is required. To register, contact Zahava at (607) 273-4675
or zee@twcny.rr.com.These
programs are made possible by the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation
through generous gifts from Carrie Shearer and Suzanne Spitz.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

The
Tompkins County Public Library and The History Center in Tompkins County will
partner Tuesday, October 16th for a demonstration by the “Freeloading
Librarians,” a group of library staff members offering instruction, advice and
support for downloading free eBooks and audiobooks to mobile devices.The
demonstration, which will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in The History Center’s
Map Room, will include personal assistance for downloading books to iPads,
iPods, Kindles, Nooks and smartphones through the Finger Lakes Library System’s
free Overdrive Media Console application. Participants
should bring their library card or sign up for a free card at the event.
A photo ID with a current, local address is required to receive a library card.This
program is designed to increase digital confidence and awareness among readers.For
more information, contact Jennifer Schlossberg at (607) 272-4557 extension 254
or jschlossberg@tcpl.org.

Too mature to blend in amongst the doorbell-ringing,
candy-collecting ghosts and goblins this Halloween, but still too young to let the
holiday pass without a little celebration? Visit the Tompkins County
Public Library’s Teen Monster Movie Matinee for a full-day of age-appropriate
fun!From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 20, teens are invited to stop by
the BorgWarner Community Room for “It Came From the Library,” a free, day-long
movie marathon featuring: “Beetlejuice,” “The Woman in Black “I Am Legend” and
“Ghostbusters.” Free popcorn and refreshments will be provided.Teens are also encouraged to stop by the Youth Services
Department’s Art Cart to sculpt their own monster sculpture and check out books
on monsters, aliens and other spooky creatures!Additional
teen movie marathons are being planned by TCPL for this fall. All movies
at these events have been selected with a teen audience in mind; however,
parents are encouraged to review ratings of the movies prior to allowing their
teen to attend. The Library does not restrict admittance to films based on age.For more
information about this program or other teen events at the Library, contact
Regina DeMauro-Axel at (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Girls in grades five
through eight and the special women in their lives are invited to read and
discuss books in a judgment-free group setting during the Saturday, October 20
meeting of Tompkins County Public Library’s monthly Mother/Daughter Book
Club.

The Mother/Daughter Book Club is facilitated by children’s
author Emily Rhoads Johnson. Rhoads Johnson is the author of “Spring and
the Shadow Man,” “A House Full of Strangers”and“Write Me If
You Dare”.

The Club provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to
learn about themselves and others by discussing literature. There are no right
or wrong answers during Club meetings, simply open discussions where all input
is valued.

The group will meet once monthly through May from 3:30 to 4:30
PM in the Library’s Thaler/Howell Programming Room.

The title to be discussed for October is, “Out of My Mind” by Sharon M. Draper.

For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607)
272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

The Tompkins County Public Library and Cornell's Center
for Materials Research will host “Families Learning Science Together: Drop
Tubes” October 6 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room.

Families will investigate how far a ball launches when
sent down ramps of different shapes and sizes and use the information learned
to try to hit targets.

Families Learning Science Together is a free program designed to help children
develop an early love of science through hands-on participation. FLST
programs are offered monthly through April 2013.

These programs are free and open to the public, but space is limited. To
register, contact Kaleigh at outreach@ccmr.cornell.edu or (607) 255-9547.

Tompkins
County Public Library, in partnership with Ithaca Made Movies, will host
“Serial Saturdays,” screenings of family-friendly short films, monthly
beginning October 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Library’s BorgWarner Community
Room.Made
popular in the mid-1900s, serial films—also known as chapter plays—were feature
films broken into short segments or chapters. Theaters would show one
chapter, typically ending in a cliffhanger, one week and patrons would return
for the next segment the following week.Ithaca’s
Wharton Brothers studio, earned fame for its serial production of “The Exploits
of Elaine,” one of the first serial films to earn more than $1 million.The
first “Serial Saturday” at TCPL will feature the first public screening of “The
Trail of the Octopus” (chapter one) since its 1920 debut, chapter one of “The
Masked Rider,” which hasn’t been shown since 1919, an episode of the
locally-filmed “Beatrice Fairfax” series and an episode of the newly-restored,
Ithaca-made “Patria.”“Serial
Saturdays” are free and open to the public. The next “Serial Saturday”
presentation will be held November 3 from 1 to 3:30 in the BorgWarner Community
Room. For more information, visit http://www.ithacamademovies.com.

Friday, October 5, 2012

In
celebration of the recently-proclaimed Ithaca Silent Movie Month and the
history of local filmmaking, the Tompkins County Public Library will partner
with the Ithaca Motion Picture Project to present “Lights, Camera, Silents!,”
during Downtown Ithaca’s October 5 Gallery Night.A
photomontage of local sets and locations used for filming movies by the famed
Wharton Brothers, this exhibit is the second to be displayed by IMPP at the
Library. Last fall, an 80-foot-long structural timeline of Ithaca’s
movie-making history was exhibited as part of “Romance, Exploits and
Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca.”“Banned
Books,” an exhibit held in conjunction with Banned Books and Freedom to Read
Week, which takes place from September 30 through October 6, and “Drawing on
Democracy” will also be featured at TCPL during Gallery Night.“Banned
Books” will include a display of books that have been challenged or banned from
schools, libraries and communities and is intended to remind readers of the
importance of access to all literature.“Drawing
on Democracy,” curated by artist and Community School of Music and Art faculty
member Terry Plater, offers a glimpse into the definition of “democracy” as
interpreted by nine local artists. The exhibit also encourages viewers to
share their comments in the ever-evolving “Citizens are Encouraged to Use the
Pencils Provided,” a piece by artist Ben Altman.“Drawing
on Democracy” has been supported by a grant from the Community Arts Partnership
and will be on display at TCPL through October 11.

Literature
lovers are invited to join the Tompkins County Public Library for “Reader’s
Delight,” a four-part creative writing workshop series, each Friday in October
from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room.Open to
adults of all ages and experience levels, this workshop will be facilitated by
Irene “Zee” Zahava and draw its inspiration from literary quotes, book covers,
passages and illustrations.Zahava
has been leading writing circles since 1994. She is a former bookstore
owner, the editor of numerous short story anthologies and haiku journals, the
co-publisher of 2 Turtles Press and the founder of Zee’s Writing Studio. This
program is free and has been made possible by the Tompkins County Public
Library Foundation through generous gifts from Carrie Shearer and Suzanne
Spitz. Advance Registration is required. To register, contact
Zahava atzee@twcny.rr.com.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Tompkins
County Public Library and the National Association of Mental Illness, Finger
Lakes (NAMI) will recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week with a panel
discussion on will and trust planning for individuals with family members who
have special needs October 4 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Library’s BorgWarner
Community Room.Panelists:
Matt Albright, pooled trust supervisor for Rochester’s Center for Disability
Rights; local attorney Joy Blumpkin; Certified Specal Needs Advisor with
Merrill Lynch Steve Headrick and Tom Witmer, a special needs planner with
MetLife Elmira, will answer questions about all facets of planning for the
long-term care of those with special needs.Topics
addressed will include how to leave assets for loved ones who are limited in
what they can own or how much money they can have in order to remain benefit
eligible and for those who may need to receive supplemental funding for the
duration of their lives.Mental
Illness Awareness Week is held each October and was established to recognize
NAMI’s work to educate and increase awareness about mental illness. For
more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension
248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The
Tompkins County Public Library will host “Teens Write!,” a creative writing
workshop for teens led by Irene Zahava, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on the first four
Wednesdays of October in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room.Irene
(Zee) Zahava has been leading writing circles since 1994. She is a former
bookstore owner, the editor of numerous short story anthologies and haiku
journals, the co-publisher of 2 Turtles Press and the founder of Zee’s
Writing Studio. “Teens
Write!” is best suited for tweens and teens ages 10 through 17. The
program will provide a safe and supportive environment for creative writing and
group sharing. There is no charge for the program; however, advance
registration is required. To register, or for more information, contact
Zahava at zee@twcny.rr.com.The
“Teens Write!” program is made possible by the Tompkins County Public Library
Foundation through generous gifts from Carrie Shearer and Suzanne Spitz.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Tompkins
County Public Library announces the October return of two popular storytimes.Beginning October
2, toddlers and their caregivers will enjoy stories, songs and fingerplays each
Tuesday at 11 a.m. during Toddler Storytime, and families with children of all
ages will be able to join in the fun each Saturday, beginning October 13 at 11 a.m.,
when Family Storytime returns. These fall
storytimes will be held weekly through December 8.Storytimes are free
and open to the public and will be held in the Library’s Thaler/Howell
Programming Room. All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. For
more information call the Youth Services Department at 607-272-457 extension
275.

Monday, October 1, 2012

October is Silent Movie Month in Ithaca
and in celebration of the City’s storied moviemaking past, the Tompkins County
Public Library and Ithaca Motion Picture Project will partner for a month of
programming and exhibits.Opening
October 1, “Lights, Camera, Silents!,” a photographic exhibit featuring a
montage of pictures of local sets and locations used for filming movies by the
famed Wharton Brothers. This exhibit is the second to be displayed by
IMPP at the Library. Last fall, an 80-foot-long structural timeline of
Ithaca’s movie-making history was exhibited as part of “Romance, Exploits and
Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca,” a county-wide exhibition on the
history of silent moviemaking and Ithaca's role in that history.On
October 21 at 2 p.m., TCPL will feature an encore presentation of the Martin
Scorsese film “Hugo.” Based on the book, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by
Brian Selznick, the Oscar-winning “Hugo” introduces pioneering French filmmaker
and illusionist Georges Méliés.The
celebration will continue October 28 at 2 p.m. when Ithaca Made Movies Founder
Terry Harbin hosts an afternoon of silent films. Harbin, an expert on
locally-made films will screen “Patria,” “The Mysteries of Myra” and “The Romance of Elaine" during this free, family-friendly event.Displays
of young reader and adult books about the silent film industry will also be on
display at TCPL during October.All
Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information,
contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.To
learn more about the Ithaca Motion Picture Project or Silent Movie Month, visit
http://www.ithacamotionpictureproject.org/. To learn more about Ithaca Made Movies visit, www.ithacamademovies.com.